Kew Gardens Hills co-op celebrates new solar energy system
BY JENNA BAGCAL
A Kew Gardens Hills co-op is
now a lot greener following the
completion of one of the largest
solar energy projects in New
York State.
Members of the Georgetown
Mews Owners’ Corporation
along with Assemblyman Daniel
Rosenthal and Councilman
Rory Lancman celebrated the
newly installed 1,550,000-watt
solar energy system.
The project will provide
electricity for residents of the
Georgetown Mews apartments
while saving approximately
$400,000 per year. The Georgetown
Mews will also have the
ability to sell excess electricity
back to Con Edison.
Renewable energy experts
Sol Alliance, who served as the
project advisors, chose Premier
Solar Solutions to install the
project at the co-op. Premier
Solar Solutions installed more
than 4,500 solar panels on 32
buildings and 90 separate roof
surfaces.
According to Rosenthal’s office,
the Georgetown Mews project
is the first large cooperative
solar system installed in New
This Kew Gardens Hills co-op will save $400,000 a year thanks to a newly installed solar energy
system. Photo courtesy of Georgetown Mews
York and the first large project
of its kind in Queens. It is also
the largest completed resident
project for which the New York
State Energy and Development
Agency has provided incentives.
Project manager Steve Owen
calculated that the solar energy
generated from the newly installed
equipment is the equivalent
of recycling over 2 million
soda cans, planting 21,000 trees,
recycling 385,000 pounds of
waste and saving 36,000 barrels
of gasoline.
By using solar energy, residents
at the 930 garden apartments
at the Georgetown Mews
will avoid releasing approximately
920,000 pounds of carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere annually.
“The Georgetown Mews
solar project is a major environmental
victory for Queens,”
said Rosenthal. “This endeavor
has set the bar for which other
developments should strive to
achieve. We are proud to celebrate
how the dedicated efforts
of a few, can make great
contributions toward creating a
greener, more sustainable New
York.”Mary Fischer, who is the
president of the Georgetown
Mews Owners’ Corporation
has been a longtime advocate of
solar energy. Fischer said that
this is the fourth energy-saving
program the co-op has completed
over the last nine years.
According to Owens, the solar
installation at Georgetown
Mews coincides with Local
Laws 92 and 94, both authored
by Councilman Costa Constantinides.
The environmental laws
mandate that the city covers the
roofs of certain buildings in
green roofs or solar photovoltaic
electricity generating systems.
“I want to thank all my local
legislators for assisting
the corporation in making the
solar project a success,” said
Fischer.
Other projects include insulating
over 450,000 feet of attics,
replacing all windows with energy
efficient models, installing
electrical submeters and replacing
16 old boilers with energyefficient
models.
“Solar panel systems are one
of the most efficient and sustainable
forms of clean energy. The
Georgetown Mews solar project
will make a valuable contribution
to the growth of renewable
energy and will move Queens
towards a clean energy future,”
said Lancman.
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